This event was located on the NIH Campus in the following areas:        

• Day 1 – 10 am - 5:30 pm - The Masur Auditorium and the National Library of Medicine  
• Day 2 –  8 am - 5:10 pm - The Natcher Conference Center

In 1910, Dr. James B. Herrick, an attending physician at Presbyterian Hospital and professor of medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, published an article on the case of an anemic West Indian patient1. Herrick’s clinical and laboratory findings of the patient’s "peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped” red blood corpuscles represent the first description of sickle cell anemia in Western medical literature.

To mark the centennial of the publication of Herrick’s case report, the National Institutes of Health is pleased to announce the James B. Herrick Symposium - Sickle Cell Disease Care and Research: Past, Present and Future which was held on November 16-17, 2010, on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. National and international experts in sickle cell care and research examined the history and societal impact of the disease and place the disease within the context of existing and future basic, translational and clinical research. Invited speakers addressed unresolved challenges and the ongoing burden of the disease. They also focussed on genetic, cellular and clinical perspectives across the lifespan, as well as existing therapeutic options and possible future treatments.

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